| amity |
friendly and peaceful relations; good will. |
| animus |
a feeling or attitude of enmity. |
| appose |
to place next to or side by side; juxtapose. |
| baneful |
causing or leading to death, destruction, or ruin; harmful or deadly. |
| credulous |
disposed to believe, especially on scanty evidence; gullible. |
| deify |
to raise to the rank of a god; consider to be a god. |
| disallow |
to refuse to allow or admit; reject. |
| emulous |
filled with the desire to equal or surpass. |
| extirpate |
to get rid of completely, as if by pulling up the roots; root out. |
| extrude |
to force out; expel. |
| figurehead |
a person whose title sounds important but who has no real power. |
| immiscible |
not able to be mixed or blended. |
| raffish |
carelessly unconventional or disreputable, sometimes appealingly so. |
| recidivism |
chronic return to bad habits, especially criminal relapse. |
| spurn |
to reject, refuse, or treat with scorn; disdain; despise. |